if you have a lot of contacts on your iPhone you might be used to organize them like this from time to time that’s when you could deleted some important ones accidentally if you have turned on iCloud syncing for them they’d be deleted from iCloud as well so in either case is it possible for you to get them all back without collecting details and adding them one by one fortunately there are several ways to make that happen let’s go ahead and see how they work the first one is how to restore them on icloud.com.
1. CONNECT YOUR iPHONE TO PC
so attach your phone to the computer then open the browser and go to cloud.com once signed in your apple id click on account settings scroll down to the bottom of the page under advanced click restore contacts now click restore next to the date before you deleted the content then click restore again to confirm well done now it says contacts restore complete you can see they have appeared on your device moving on if you back up contacts to your computer using iTunes here is how to restore them from iTunes backup.
2. OPEN ITUNES
so launch iTunes then plug your phone in and make sure you have turned off fine my iPhone once detected hit the iPhone icon then click on restore backup choose a recent backup that could contain the contacts and hit restore to confirm keep in mind that this not only restore contacts but also restore data like messages apps data and settings to your iPhone the device will restart and you should enter your passcode when prompted this process could take a while depending on how big the backup is once done go ahead and complete the setup.
as you can see your lost contacts are back at this point moving on if you have difficulty using iTunes alt theta could make a nice alternative there’s a link in the description below if you’d like to download so once launch it connect your phone to the computer first let’s try recovering them from the device directly without using any backups select contacts only then hit the scan button well it doesn’t seem to find the loss once that’s fine let’s switch to the recover data from iTunes backup section.
choose the backup that might contains the contacts and hit next now select contacts again and hit the scan button this time it found all the deleted ones you can choose a location and export them to your computer or restore them back to your iPhone like this as you can see they instantly showed up on your device apparently this has spared you from collecting the details and add them to your device one by one that’s it thanks For Your Time To Read.
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